Empowerment & Resilience in Children Everywhere (ERICE)

Our Mission Statement

Guided by the belief that children everywhere are to be cherished and that respect for and protection of children is a shared human value, ERICE works to promote human rights, joint action, training and interventional projects focused on enhancing the well-being of children and families affected by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. ERICE brings together child mental health professionals from Israel and Palestine to formulate and accomplish joint projects to enhance the well being of children and families that neighbor one another in this strife-torn region of the world.

Foundation Child and Yale University carry out a role of coordination, support and scientific supervision, thanks to the leadership of Prof. Ernesto Caffo (President of the Foundation Child) and Prof. James Leckam (Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine).

Members of the ERICE group include: Arab-Israeli academics, physicians and psychologists; Jewish Israeli academics, physicians and psychologists; and Palestinian academics, physicians and psychologists.

Projects

At present, a number of pilot projects have been funded to impact other lives of a large number of Israeli and Palestinian children:

2006 | Meeting to discuss results of initial research showing that children who are exposed to conflict exhibit severe signs of psychological trauma, presented by Ruth Feldman, MD, Rome, Italy

2005 | Group adopts the name E.R.I.C.E., not only in honor of the name of the meeting place, Erice (Sicily, Italy), but also an acronym of their common goal (Empowerment and Resilience In Children Everywhere)

2004 | Established as first joint project among Israeli and Palestinian professionals, led by Prof. Ernesto Caffo, Director of Foundation Child, at the Italian Embassy, Berlin, Germany

2004 | Initial plans to establish ERICE took place following a meeting of parents of children (both Arab-Israeli and Jewish Israeli), enrolled in a Kindergarten at the YMCA in Jerusalem; organized by Shafiq Masalha, PhD

For More Information | How to Make a Donation to ERICE

For more information and to donate to further the development of ERICE and its programs, please contact James F. Leckman, MD, PhD at james.leckman@yale.edu.

Hand in Hand Learning together Living together | יד ביד يداً بيد

Aug 2013 | The story of Hand in Hand pioneering schools, almost the only bilingual ones in Israel, and the joint Arab - Jewish communities surrounding them. (Shafiq Masalha, PhD, President Hand In Hand)

Aug 2013 | The story of Hand in Hand pioneering schools, almost the only bilingual ones in Israel, and the joint Arab - Jewish communities surrounding them. (Shafiq Masalha, PhD, President Hand In Hand)

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